Northbound I-81 closed at Walnut Bottom

Heard on: Cumberland PA Fire-Talk Group Calls

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This transcript is auto-generated from live dispatch audio and may be incomplete or inaccurate. It is not an official report and may change.

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We're all to get to northbound five, but I'm probably going to need help with push traffic.

00:12

We're going to advise head over shirt over.

00:15

I want to block off if we want as well.

00:20

It'll be a little easier, but then you got a pretty good gap between Walnut Bottom and Hanover Street.

00:24

So you want to use Hanover?

00:28

We're going to go Walnut Bottom and shut it off there.

00:30

I have additional traffic for you.

00:32

All right, all fire police

00:38

on the box. I spoke with command.

00:40

We're going to go ahead and shut it down at Walnut Bottom, and then we'll clear the backlog between using the Hanover off ramp.

00:49

I'm just approaching the 81 split now.

00:53

I'm going to go northbound and flip around and start pushing people off at Walnut Bottom.If anybody else responding, go ahead and start clearing the rest of the backlog off of Hanover.

2026-10-23 11:57 UTC

Road Closure

I-81, Walnut Bottom, PA

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As discussed during the dispatch call, fire police coordinated a road closure on northbound I-81 near Walnut Bottom, with traffic reportedly diverted through the Hanover off-ramp to clear a backlog of vehicles.

Northbound I-81 closed at Walnut Bottom

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